...eye to the figure it surrounds : thus wisely sacrificing the lesser point to secure the greater. " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults, true critics dare not mend. *' language, the parts are out of keeping. Though these pictures fully exhibit the brilliant genius...

...Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bonnds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing...

...nearer way to take, IWay boldly deviate from the common track; Great wits sometimes may gloriousiy offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with hrave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, The heart, and all ils end at once...

...into monotony and bombast. It has been pleaded, in mitigation, that great painters, like great poets, "sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend;" that his errors flowed from the same source as his beauties : and were often such as none but himself...

...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise ; 155 The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,)...

...forsaken the order of Nature, or that the schools themselves are not in harmony with Nature ? We 9* know the plea which is so frequently urged in behalf...gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare Dot mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."...

...in a poet's lifetime, and respecting which Pope says — Great wit sometimes may gloriously often)), And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with bravo disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art ; but a wilful love for amatory thoughts,...

...into monotony and bombast. It has been pleaded, in mitigation, that great painters, like great poets, "sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend;" that his errors flowed from the same source as his beauties ; and •were often such as none but himself...

...wonders, has it not given birth? To whom so justly than to this author can these lines be applied — " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ?" Beethoven never defended himself against criticisms or attacks, he never suffered them to have more...

...taste I have always seen a great beauty in the words " Mr. Hanson " picks out as a great blemish — " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From wonted bounds with brave disorder start, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." " Mr. Hanson's...